James Cameron kritisiert die Oscars für Denis Villeneuves „Dune“-Snubs: „Sie können das Preisverleihungsspiel mitspielen“ oder „Machen Sie Filme, die die Leute tatsächlich sehen“
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-cameron-slams-oscars-denis-villeneuve-dune-snubs-1236612577/
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> “I don’t think about the Academy Awards that much,” Cameron said. “Intentionally, I don’t think about that at this point. I don’t try to make a movie to appeal to their sensibility… they don’t tend to honor films like ‘Avatar’ or films that are science fiction. Sci-fi is almost never properly recognized.”
> “Denis Villeneuve made these two magnificent ‘Dune’ films and apparently these films make themselves because he wasn’t considered as a director, not even by the Director’s Guild. Like okay, you can play the awards game or you can play the game I like to play and that’s to make movies people actually go to. Sorry!”
To be fair, isn’t a boatload of money ‚award‘ in and of itself?
I know the film award system is self-aggrandizing to the extent of masturbation, but foundationally: wouldn’t it best be used to add prestige to films that aren’t catered to be blockbusters?
Lol Titanic won 11 oscars and was the highest grossing movie of all time until Avatar unseated it and won 3 oscars in the process.
Cameron is a fantastic and bankable director with an assload of industry experience, but „you can play the awards game or make a movie people want to go to“ rings super hollow when he often does both
Dune is a terrible book and all the movies are terrible.
Can we all just stop pretending that it’s not absolute garbage.
Honestly this is the entire point every celebrity and executive trying to save the movie theater experience needs to reconcile with. Awards need to find a way of recognizing the films that people want to see and do as well financially as the artistic and less well attended. Close the gap between the two “groups” of films – there has to be more films that can meet in the middle.
The small and artistic cannot exist without the large and popular.
Jim has been coming out swinging lately, love to see it.
That’s why I don’t watch movies anymore.
“Like, if you’re not making movies about mining precious resources on hostile planets, what’s the fucking point?”, the 71 year-old filmmaker went on to muse.
I don’t think Villeneuve is the kind of director that makes movies in order to get some award. If he is, Dune and Blade Runner would not have been his choices.
James Cameron continues to have nothing but good opinions
Kinda getting tired of hearing what James Cameron has to say about stuff.
Amen! Oscar bait movies ruined Hollywood far more than anything else. Good movies with quality scripts and cinematography that actually appeal to the masses and have entertainment value and aren’t pretentious drivel are a lost art— and have been for decades now.
Finally something I can agree with Cameron on
I guess if you nominate 10 films for best picture and only 5 directors for best director, somebody misses out. What gets me is when a director doesn’t win but the picture does. That makes no sense at all.
However, James Cameron sure is opinionated these days. What’s next, he will say he wrote Dune?
Out of the crop of movies that year, Arrival deserved BP
Dune and Dune 2 were 2 of the best movies made in recent years
Dune 2 was not that good… it looked pretty and the acting was great but the movie itself was bleh…
Still bitter your ex-wife beat you in 2009, Jim?
I knew Dune was the best picture winner, and it was all confirmed with that horrible reveal that most academy members don’t even watch the nominations or vote for one b/c their friend worked on it.
Either way it’s lost all meaning.
I don’t need a gold statue to tell me Dune was the best film of the year, I knew it was.
I’m not saying I disagree with Cameron but after dealing with Tarantino’s big mouth lately, I wish directors would shut up. I’m tired of hearing their opinions.
I haven’t watched the Oscar’s in a long while. They haven’t been relevant.
Arrival is brilliant….Prisoners…Sicario…Blade Runner 2049. I don’t even need the Dune movies to know he is the best. He is so good at intense psycho-dramas built into different genres. Nobody does dread like Denis. Also, he just throws you into an already developing story and keeps you guessing, much like the characters. I love that.
Nobody is going to see the new Avatar.
Well are the awards for artistic innovation or for films that make money?
I loved the dune films, they are a mostly solid adaptation of an amazing book. But are they innovative? Do they break new ground in filmmaking? I dunno, i’m no film expert but maybe not. And maybe thats why they didnt win.
As i recall the winners are chosen by the votes of hundreds if people in the industry, not two or three eggheads in an ivory tower.
Cameron has it right, though, you can make innovative films that mat not find large audiences because they are innovative. Or you can make films that appeal to large audiences. Usually these dont break a lot of new ground because too much innovation alienates mainstream audiences. In that case villeneuve should be happy with the truckloads of money he made as it is proof that he did his job well. No need to be greedy and moan that you didnt get the awards AND the money. Leave some crumbs for others, yeah? Its not like jk rowling will win the booker prize, either.